you could write to the team leader and ask to be part of the team. I am a member of a few teams (by language pairs and field of expertise) and I must tell you that it works very well; we bid on jobs together and we take up assignments together and revise each other work, to the benefit of all members. The philosophy behind is that 4 eyes and 2 brains are better than one. Also teams allow you to plan your workload better in the sense that when you have too much work you have the resources to tackle it, and you may get work from your team when you have less.

Hope this is helpful.

paola l m

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A Question for Paola or any other who has experience with team-projects

Feb 2, 2002

Hi Paola and others,

Thank you for your message. I have also created a team, but I am not sure how this works. Do all the team members have to work on a certain project, or only some of them who are called? Or, let say that a particular member cannot work on a particular project, does he still get paid for that project as a team member, even if he is not able to work? Does ProZ have written rules related to the teams or/and if not, who makes the rules for a team? Thank you for your time.

Monika[addsig]

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we divide the \"spoils\" of our work according to the number of words done by each member; sometimes one translates and the other revises, or both translate and revise each other. I think it is entirely up to each team and the agreements the members make with each other.

I am extremely happy with this function (you can bid on jobs as a team) and have started fruitful and successful collaboration with other Proz.com members.

ciao Monika

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